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A Prayer Before Dawn Pharoah Sanders and William Henderson...

August 29, 1993|By Jack Fuller.

A Prayer Before Dawn Pharoah Sanders and William Henderson (Evidence).

There is a sweetness about some of the cuts on this 1987 recording by tenor saxophonist Pharoah Sanders that becomes almost cloying at times. That is not something I would ever have expected to say of anything by Sanders a couple decades ago, when he was out on the edge with John Coltrane. But like Archie Shepp and so many other fine jazz exponents from earlier times, he has returned to the basics.